Duarte @duarteocarmo.com · 24/09/2026Had to use cursor today (sshing into hpc - and wanted to get an idea of files, directories, etc) One thing Cursor still nails is the review pane. Lazygit and hunk are good - but this is better. 020
Duarte @duarteocarmo.com · 24/09/2026Am I the only one that is excited about this bad boy for local use? 9B - distilled from the #1 open weight model at the moment :) huggingface.co/ggml-org/Mi...huggingface.coggml-org/MiMo-V2.6-Distill-Qwen-9B-GGUF · Hugging FaceWe’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science. 110
Duarte @duarteocarmo.com · 17/09/2026You use @herdrdev + pi - but sometimes the agent asks you a question and herdr does not show it as blocked github.com/duarteocarm...github.comdotfiles/.pi/agent/extensions/herdr-ui-prompt-bridge.ts at master · duarteocarmo/dotfilesContribute to duarteocarmo/dotfiles development by creating an account on GitHub. 000
Duarte @duarteocarmo.com · 17/09/2026Invoice dataset is so useful that all the invoices look the same 😂 000
Duarte @duarteocarmo.com · 15/09/2026I saw a post on LinkedIn saying we should use AMALIA to grade Portuguese high-school exams (the gov. was taking too long) Horrible idea.. But! I benchmarked a bunch of smaller models vs. AMALIA on a bunch of EU-PT benchmarks (including PT-exams) link below 100
Duarte @duarteocarmo.com · 14/09/2026Learning my new split keyboard is a pain. Send help and your best tips please. This is hell ahahah 000
Duarte @duarteocarmo.com · 10/09/2026I prefer deepseek v4 flash over pretty much any glm model. @Sentdex you have seen something I have not 😂 000
Duarte @duarteocarmo.com · 08/09/2026The best thing about LLMs gotten this good is that I can focus on the writing and it will handle all the other bs for me Converting images, generating thumbnails, adding links, animations, visuals ALL THAT BS!!!! (yes it gets the link wrong sometimes, but I catch the mf) 000
Duarte @duarteocarmo.com · 08/09/2026Cargo bikes, android e-reader tablets, ai-generated text classification and generating great landing pages with LLMs! This month's Retrospectiva is out! duarteocarmo.com/blog/retros...duarteocarmo.comRetrospectiva #11A monthly newsletter about life. 010
Duarte @duarteocarmo.com · 08/09/2026If I can run 3 deepseek flash sessions in the same time astra is thinking about a single prompt - does this mean I cancel codex? jk 000
Duarte @duarteocarmo.com · 07/09/2026Building a slide deck today. AGI is here, but I still prefer powerpoint. -> Move logo here -> gray it out -> wtf is this font -> add this image I think it's faster if I just do it myself 😂 000
Duarte @duarteocarmo.com · 06/09/2026I have to compare two models on a benchmark. Which temp? Which max_tokens? Which top_p setting? Everywhere I look I see "we use the lab recommendation". Ok, so this is the wild west I see. 000
Duarte @duarteocarmo.com · 06/09/2026I think Casey was right. You can def. replace sleep hours with run hours. 000
Duarte @duarteocarmo.com · 01/09/20262024: Use parcel tracking apps 2026: "Check on <tracking_code> and let me know when something changes" Hermes I ❤️ you. 000
Duarte @duarteocarmo.com · 30/08/2026"Ping!" Agent ready. Running 2-3 agents in parallel doesn't need to be mentally taxing. Pi-jumper allows you to jump between @pidotdev sessions running on tmux with a couple clicks. It's part of pi-tools, some extensions I've built around Pi! Blog post below 100
Duarte @duarteocarmo.com · 25/08/2026Presenting Bagaço v3 the next generation of Bagaço, the largest pre-training dataset for European Portuguese! ~30 Billion tokens from across the Web, it now also includes Wikipedia and PDF data thanks to the great work from the folks at Hugging Face! Full write up in the comments 110
Duarte @duarteocarmo.com · 19/08/2026Build a herdr competitor for @pidotdev in 30 seconds today. @ycombinator please invest 100
Duarte @duarteocarmo.com · 10/08/2026Hiking in the dolomites with an 8 month old, replacing Tmux with herdr, the Laguna technical report, and Tierra Whack. Last month's Retrospectiva is out. duarteocarmo.com/blog/retros...duarteocarmo.comRetrospectiva #10 000
Duarte @duarteocarmo.com · 07/08/2026.@spotify - explain to me why russ is always on my discover playlists? Even though I've clicked hide this multiple times? 000
Duarte @duarteocarmo.com · 07/08/2026This year I've built evals, classifiers, and even Bagaço, a pretraining dataset for European Portuguese. This raises an obvious question: Can we pretrain LLMs fully in European Portuguese? How do we measure if they're any good? Meet project Ginjinha 🇵🇹 (link in comments) 230
Duarte @duarteocarmo.com · 06/07/2026Sick home with the flu. GLM-5.2, Scaling Laws, World Cup, and Western States duarteocarmo.com/blog/retros...duarteocarmo.comRetrospectiva #9A monthly newsletter about life. 120
Duarte @duarteocarmo.com · 13/06/2026It's crazy to me how I just use Matplotlib now to look for flights. But that's just the tip of the iceberg. Here's how I use Saramago, my Hermes Agent duarteocarmo.com/blog/how-i-...duarteocarmo.comHow I HermesCoding on the go, reminders, fitness coaching and more. Here's how I use Saramago, my Hermes Agent. 031
Duarte @duarteocarmo.com · 04/06/2026A hectic month. Copenhagen Marathon, TranslateGemma, Hoka Hopara, Deep Learning for Biology, and Sakamoto. duarteocarmo.com/blog/retros...duarteocarmo.comRetrospectiva #8A monthly newsletter about life. 001
Duarte @duarteocarmo.com · 26/05/20266 months ago I wrote a blog post saying TTS still sucked. The tables are starting to turn. Here's a quick post about options - actual options. duarteocarmo.com/blog/tts-do...duarteocarmo.comTTS doesn't suck anymore6 months ago I wrote a blog post on how TTS still sucked. It's been 6 months, and the tables have turned. We have options now. 010
Duarte @duarteocarmo.com · 12/05/2026Announcing the second version of Bagaço. 37GB of European Portuguese text. 33 million documents, ~9.3 BILLION tokens. Completely open 😉 duarteocarmo.com/blog/the-la...duarteocarmo.comThe largest open pretraining dataset for European PortugueseAnnouncing Bagaço v2: the largest open pretraining dataset for European Portuguese. 9.7 billion tokens, and a total of 37GB of text, available on Hugging Face. 020
Duarte @duarteocarmo.com · 04/05/2026This month in Retrospectiva: Using Hermes as a running coach and travel agent, Carlo Rovelli, Jensen Huang, and the Plastic Detox. duarteocarmo.com/blog/retros... 010
Duarte @duarteocarmo.com · 24/04/2026In Nov 2024, the Portuguese gov. announced a 5.5M EUR investment in project AMÁLIA: a fully open source LLM for European Portuguese. A month ago, the technical report was released. Here's a look at it, and some thoughts on the future of EU-PT LLMs. duarteocarmo.com/blog/amalia...duarteocarmo.comAMÁLIA and the future of European Portuguese LLMsThoughts on the new technical report from AMÁLIA: The Open Source LLM for European Portuguese 000
Duarte @duarteocarmo.com · 03/04/2026More Pi. Running and photography apps. Inference engineering and clusters on fire. duarteocarmo.com/blog/retros...duarteocarmo.comRetrospectiva #6A monthly newsletter about life. 000
Duarte @duarteocarmo.com · 25/03/2026Preparing the Setúbal Half-Marathon and I thought: What if I had a running plan that was actually, you know, for ME. And the calendar export ofc duarteocarmo.com/blog/an-opi...duarteocarmo.comAn opinionated running dashboardSome updates to my small and opinionated running dashboard: Tanda Runner 000
Duarte @duarteocarmo.com · 10/03/2026If you're going to build a European Portuguese LLM, you need a scalable way of detecting it in the wild. Here's a write up of how I got FastText to match SOTA performance with a model that is 10x smaller and 100x faster: It's a bitter lesson. duarteocarmo.com/blog/portug...duarteocarmo.comPortuguese variety identification: The bitter lessonTraining a text classifier to detect European Portuguese text at scale. Matching fine-tuned BERT by scaling training data. 000
Duarte @duarteocarmo.com · 01/03/2026The latest Retrospectiva is out: I talk about Pi, baby carriers, Alphafold, and barbarous distillation attacks duarteocarmo.com/blog/retros...duarteocarmo.comRetrospectiva #5A monthly newsletter about life. 021
Duarte @duarteocarmo.com · 27/02/2026Today is the day I canceled copilot. github.com/duarteocarm...github.comGitHub - duarteocarmo/llama.luaContribute to duarteocarmo/llama.lua development by creating an account on GitHub. 010
Duarte @duarteocarmo.com · 23/02/2026Bagaço (.i.e., Portuguese moonshine) - is the first attempt at a pretraining dataset for European Portuguese. Much inspired by the FineWeb work. Much to do! duarteocarmo.com/blog/bagaco...duarteocarmo.comBagaço: A pretraining dataset for European PortugueseBagaço is a first attempt at a pretraining dataset for training LLMs in European Portuguese 020
Duarte @duarteocarmo.com · 17/02/2026"I don't know how you manage it all" Tmux. Tmux is the answer. 020
Duarte @duarteocarmo.com · 28/01/2026Italy, Conero national park, running in the hills, agents, and The Pitt. duarteocarmo.com/blog/retros...duarteocarmo.comRetrospectiva #4A monthly newsletter about life. 010
Duarte @duarteocarmo.com · 23/01/2026You use agents. I use agents. We all use agents. Here's how I police them. duarteocarmo.com/blog/how-to...duarteocarmo.comHow to police your agentsWe're building more than ever. But how do we manage the complexity? We police our agents. 021
Duarte @duarteocarmo.com · 05/01/2026I don't like ads. You don't like ads. We don't like ads. Limpa is like AdBlock + SponsorBlock but for podcasts. GitHub repo below open.substack.com/pub/duarteo... 120
Duarte @duarteocarmo.com · 04/01/2026Running a web server + a worker used to be a pain. Thanks Claude, didn't know about this one. github.com/nickstennin...github.comGitHub - nickstenning/honcho: Honcho: a python clone of Foreman. For managing Procfile-based applications.Honcho: a python clone of Foreman. For managing Procfile-based applications. - nickstenning/honcho 010
Duarte @duarteocarmo.com · 02/01/2026Now with agents you can have super meaningful commit messages. It's incredible. Lul 000
Duarte @duarteocarmo.com · 01/01/2026complexipy kreuzberg throttled-py batchata I'm living under a rock? Never heard of any of these. Tasty though. tryolabs.com/blog/top-py...tryolabs.comTop Python libraries of 2025Explore our 11th annual Top Python Libraries roundup, featuring two curated Top 10 lists for General Use and AI / ML / Data tools that matter today. 010
Duarte @duarteocarmo.com · 01/01/2026Dirty little secret. Cancel Claude code, cancel ChatGPT plus. Github copilot is 10 bucks a month. And OpenCode can use them all 🤫 000